Year of the Snake
Yi Si 乙巳 · Fire snake · 4 January 2026, 13:00 local
Snake (蛇) — Wise, intuitive and purposeful.
- Age
- 0 years 289 days lived · traditional age 2 · next birthday 2027-01-04 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Snakeby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 11th month, 16th 乙巳年十一月十六 · lunar year 2025
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 16
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Lantern · missing metal
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Capricornfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- SundayWinter Solstice
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2026-01-04 13:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Yi Si
乙巳
Wood · Snake
Month
Wu Zi
戊子
Earth
Day
Wu Yin
戊寅
Earth
Hour
Ji Wei
己未
Earth
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Fire fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Fire of the Lantern” means in folk astrology. The colours and counts below come from the stem and branch of each pillar, which is the method used for a five-element reading.
- Wood 2
- Fire 1
- Earth 4
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 1
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